| Description |
xv, 284 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Mythical Constructs and Social Realities / Lieve Spaas -- 2. Heredity and Paternity / Max Andreoli -- 3. The Paternal Role and the Napoleonic Code / Xavier Martin -- 4. DNA and the Stakes in Embodying Paternity / Carol Mossman -- 5. Factoring the Father / Christie McDonald -- 6. The Heredity of Power and Paternity of the Text in some Medieval Works / Yolande de Pontfarcy -- 7. Pere and Mere: Unequals in Language / Philippe Bolusset -- 8. Life without Father: Revisions of Paternity in Women's Writing in France / Jennifer Birkett -- 9. Absent Fathers across the Spectrum of Local Colour in the Short Stories of Kate Chopin / Janet Beer -- 10. Death of the Father and Birth of Idolatry: from Mme de Sevigne to her Daughter / Angela Cozea -- 11. The Father Effect: Rimbaud, Pessoa / Jean-Jacques Hamm -- 12. Fatherhood in the Works of George Sand / Anna Szabo -- 13. Politics and Fatherhood in the African Novel: Le Chercheur D'Afriques by Henri Lopes / Patrick Corcoran |
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14. Loys Masson: Father as Text / Michaela Mongelard -- 15. Il Papa, Sade's Pater Beyond Compare / Beatrice Fink -- 16. Kafka's 'Papa' / Sander L. Gilman -- 17. Death with Father in David Copperfield / Jeff Nunokawa -- 18. Why do Ogres Eat Babies? Monstrous Paternity in Myth and Fairytales / Marina Warner -- 19. Fathers as Mothers: the Myth of Male Parthenogenesis / Lynn Thomas -- 20. Dispossessing the Father in the Fiction of Michel Tournier / Mark Ferrigan -- 21. Moliere's Disturbing Fathers / Tivadar Gorilovics -- 22. Shakespeare and the Misrecognition of Fathers and Sons / Lawrence Danson -- 23. 'Father and Mother is One Flesh': Hamlet and the Problems of Paternity / Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor -- 24. Mystical Estates and Legal Fictions: Modernism's Apostolic Successions / Stan Smith |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Fatherhood in literature.
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Paternity in literature.
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| Author |
Selous, Trista, 1957-
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Spaas, Lieve.
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| LC no. |
97047027 |
| ISBN |
0333642376 (cloth) |
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